Please stand by...X5

"Please stand by...Zone Alarm is initializing. This window will close once Zone Alarm has initializes. You may click cancel to shut down Zone Alarm."

During the time occupied by this repeated initializing routine I cannot get access to any browsers or even applications on my hard drive to work.

As the number of 'initializations' required has increased so has the time between boot-up and usefulness (ie access to applications) has also increased. It started appearing some months ago, but the number of repetitions has increased from twice to five times over a period of about six months.

To give you some idea of how long this takes, here is a log of this morning's boot-up: